steve pasin

About steve pasin

After 60+ years of lay observation and medical practice I have become an 'absolutist' rather than an 'opinionist.' Things are or they are not.

In radiology pixels are assigned values, for the sake of contrast, This, is done by a very dispassionate computer program that reads what the image is, not what the image could, should, or would be.

Though the pixels are shades of gray each is an absolute numeric value relative to the pixel next to it.

The computer is an absolutist.

In the world of delusional men opinions reign and this has spawned our history.

Everything is allowed because everything is seen as a shade of gray and thus countenanced.

This is not Homo Sapien.

Yet, everything is absolute unto itself.

It is seen as a gray area because there is invoked a psychological defense mechanism.

Criminals commit acts (black and white occurrences) and judges decide there are gray areas in the case and release them onto the streets where they repeat.

The innocent die again for a gray area they knew not.

But the judge did.

This planet has trained me to be a doctor and that has engrained scientific thinking as my God for only this thinking is reproducible.

I like that.

Science does not kill only cultural beliefs do.

Guns do not kill, ideologies do.

This is stress-free absoluteness.

This is evidence-based medicine.

Everything else is culturally derived and too many people (billions upon billions) walk in the dark, bumping into the walls of their lives, and then praying to their cultural god to deliver them from their cultural beliefs, behaviors, customs, and values for which they must atone.

No one sees the impositions made on the "infidels." Yet, I prove we are all one for if not, we are all cultural infidels to someone.

Truth is absolute and if you can prosecute me for malpractice, because I have deviated from the known absolute science of the day, and have hurt others for my deviance, then how do you prosecute humanity for its fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants deviances which are allowable because you are entitled to your opinion, which is bias, prejudice, and faith, all generated by the culture that taught you its ways, its truth?

Enough is enough.

Are we to go extinct for our cultural righteousness because we can see no common ground on which all humanity must stand?

I have found at least some common ground and I am not the first to see a way. “Great truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses.

And now, as all the world is in error, how shall I, though I know the true path, how shall I guide?

If I know that I cannot succeed and yet try to force success, this would be but another source of error.

Better then to desist and strive no more.

But if I do not strive, who will?” - Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky You, people of Earth, have created me.

I am a product of the human lineage from which we all come.

I will be gone soon enough but what do you do with this legacy?

My biography is your biography. "We" are all in this book.

For the sake of our lineage do not squander what Socrates understood, “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” Lastly, can eight billion people be wrong?

The knee-jerk answer is, no.

Can something be true for every single person on this planet?

The knee-jerk reaction is, no.

Consider the answers to these questions respectively, contradictions make you wrong to all others (eight billion others and counting) of alternative beliefs; they just disagree with you because of the cultural distance of being raised a certain way, not your way, which has become your point of view.

It is historically the foundation of war.

Proof is in the wars that have fought between factions (Galatians) of all stripes.

The creation of Protestantism began with an altered point of view (Martin Luther) that led to death and destruction of ‘Christian infidels’ of alternate cloth.

Even today, there are about thirty-five-thousand Christian denominations worldwide.

Do they contradict each other?

Nouns, as people, places, and things are true for everyone.

What is demonstrable is true and you can show it off.

What is felt to be truth is not showable.

Feelings are biochemically and culturally induced and true only for you because of the way they make your particular biology respond to them.

If your biology becomes too affected you see a psychiatrist.

What is your biography?